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26 September 2017

I remember seeing a photo of Gunther Rohregger in Pinterest hunched over a table full of Post-it notes, bottles of wine and a computer while smelling the wine inside a glass. It was captioned that he was working on new gelato flavors using 14 different wines of Vigne di Roma, wine producers from Lazio (Italy) that were to be presented at the Taste of Roma 2017 by MangiaeBevi, a leading Italian enogastronomic guide. My interest was completely drawn to what his creative mind can come up with. His artisan gelato is not new to me. I am familiar with the clean daring flavors that he comes up with like his unforgettable (and not for the fainthearted) Gelato al Sigaro Toscano (Tuscan cigar). Wine and gelato are very interesting flavors to blend and if there's anyone who can pull it off well, it has to be Gunther Gelato Italiano.

Vigne di Roma is a network of wine producers from the Italian region of Lazio that was formed in February 2016. Originally 11 producers from the beginning, it has now expanded to 15 members. The network aims to raise the level of knowledge of the wines produced in Lazio that are linked to the historical wine production of the region. This union is composed of family companies in the Lazio region that are characterized by quality, innovation, and vivacity. One of their goals is to approach the food sector because after all, the local Roman cuisine marries well with the wines produced in the same territory.

Gunther Gelato Italiano is a creation of Gunther Rohregger, a young artisan gelato maker from South Tyrol, in northern Italy, who has been passionately making gelato in Rome for the past nine years. At his three gelaterie (Punto Gelato & The Taste Gelato), you can taste his original flavors, both traditional and some that are absolutely unique where he uses exclusively ingredients of optimum quality, even the water which comes from the Dolomite mountains. You can also see more about Gunther at my blog post and article at Honest Cooking.

The union with Vigne di Roma gave birth to these 14 adventurous and unexpected flavors:

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